Leaders of foremost
socio-political organizations in Nigeria have berated the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led Federal Government over the persistent killings across the country.
They berated the Buhari-led
government over its failure to find a lasting solution to the killings across
the country.
The leaders from the Northern
Elders Forum, NEF, Afenifere, Ohaeneze Ndigbo, and Pan Niger Delta Forum,
PANDEF stated this in a communiqué they issued after a summit yesterday in
Abuja.
Signed by each leader of the
organizations, the communiqué said various infractions being experienced in the
country are “steadily eroding public confidence in our hard-earned democracy”.
They noted that the nation was
witnessing “unprecedented incompetence” from the government.
The communiqué reads, “The summit
observes as follows: that the general state of insecurity and incessant
killings in Nigeria have escalated in recent times with several communities at
the mercy of marauding killers.
“The present administration had
identified security as one of the three pillars of its change agenda. However,
the country’s entire security and law and order assets appear incapable of
arresting the drift towards a state of anarchy.
“Summit, therefore, observes with
regret the negation of this administration’s commitment and undertaking to
provide security to all Nigerians.
“That the country now witnesses
unprecedented incompetence and enthronement of mediocrity in dealing with the horrendous
spate of killings and general insecurity across the country.
“That in the eyes of many
affected communities, there appears to be palpable government complicity in the
killings going on around the country. These killings claimed more than 3,500 lives
in 2017, a figure that could be much higher in 2018.”
The leaders stressed that the
nation’s economy was characterized by “significant loss of output, massive
youth unemployment, a rising level of poverty, instability, and irregular
migration of skilled and unskilled labour.
“In fact, according to the World
Bank, the unemployment rate in Nigeria has increased despite its purported exit
from recession in 2017.
“This is a national embarrassment
and a disgrace to a country that is endowed with abundant resources”.
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ReplyDeletelook at this corrupt leaders which called themselves leader in various regions should swallow their pride by embracing the reality on ground. they are frustrated because dollars are not fort coming to their account.
ReplyDeleteNobody has any confidence in this Buhari. First it was the National Assembly now it is leaders of socio-political leaders. Let us vote him out in 2019.
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